Nothing New Under the Sun

Sara Reardon was hardly alone when she wrote – “There’s nothing really new in a second massive cache of e-mails”, on the same day that the huge pile was released. A “massive” cache with nothing new?….hmm. Just how it is that she knew that is beyond me. But a lot of reporters seemed to teleconnect the same point made first by surReal Climate. I have still read only a fraction (being tired of it) and today we have a unique new bit for the public. Remember those august committees formed by the government to see if the government might have screwed up? Ya know, the ones who decided that the government funded people were innocent of wrongdoing?

One determination by the committees was that nobody had deleted any emails to cover anything up. Well it looks like they may have accidentally gotten the answer right. Instead of deletion, they were copied (cut and paste) to a personal portable USB drive. David Holland has an excellent guest post on the matter at Bishop Hill blog.

We have emails from all in Ch 6 to say the group doesn’t want emails made available.

I’ve read the USB quote by David Holland in the emails. I’ve been slowly compiling them – very slowly. It is fantastically boring reading the work of people who are poorly qualified. In the end, I have to agree with Sara on this one. We already knew they did it, even though the skeptic-deaf adjudicators claimed they didn’t.

Bottom line, the CRU results are not repeatable – now or in the past. It is the gridded data set that cannot be reconstituted. And that is the basis of regional, hemispheric and global anomaly claims. All of which must now be withdrawn since the CRU results cannot be reproduced.

steveta_uksaid

AJStrata (11:55), it appears to me that you’ve been far harder on Phil Jones than Greg Laden was on TallBlock, so you can expect either a law suite coming your way, or else he is so clearly guilty that he will keep quiet.

Mark Tsaid

Carricksaid

The difference is that AJ backed up his claim. Laden did not, nor could he have.

Laden’s own link contradicted his hyper-ventillated description of TallBloke. Plus you have a long delay between when he was alerted that his comments were in error and libelous and when he finally half-assedly corrected them. He has totally screwed the pooch on that one.